I think it's good for Microsoft. They paid $20 million and now every potential Lindows customer who visits the site will be visiting a site run by Microsoft where they can spout all sorts of FUD about how insecure Lindows is compared to Windows. Step three, profit!;-)
Finally someone recognises that IM and Voice are different enough to use separate protocols for the two. I'm fed up with this bullshit where IM protocols have to implement their own voice protocol because the existing ones simply mustn't be good enough.:-/
Samsung are a bad example for comparison. I've owned two Samsung phones, both were flip phones, and both flips snapped off within 18 months of use. Of course, I'm not female so I actually treat my electronics well, and it didn't break as fast as your sister's.
But Motorola's flips seem pretty solid. They have those huge hinges like you see on the GameBoy Advance, where the size of the hinge is about half the width of the phone.:-)
My next phone is almost certainly going to be that Motorola MPx, but the flip on that one swivels in all directions so I'm skeptical about how solid that one's going to be. Nevertheless...
Also, I want my ringer to sound like a telephone ring, not Flight of the Bumblebee or the theme from Cheers. I've always thought that the selection of ring-tones that actually sound like a telephone ringer are quite lousy on some phones
With the current series of phones, you can put on MP3 ringtones. The first thing I'm doing when I get my next phone is recording the real from a real antique phone, and setting that up.
People who have so many issues installing a commercial Scrabble (I have the last commercial release of Scrabble AFAIK, and it wasn't complex to install at all), should be playing Scrabble on web sites where they don't have to think about how to get it running.
And FFS, bitching about an old chess program not working? Chess is one of those programs where someone write a new computerised version once a week. I'm sure that enough searching would have eventually found one which didn't install a bunch of crap. Or again, use the damn web version.
I say fuck it. I will just GPG and TLS encrypt all the critical data which goes over the wire anyway, just like I do now... Sure, they can add another layer if they want, but only if it's not going to lag my wireless link.
DROT-13 is the best algorithm ever because it contains advanced technology which permits the human brain to instantly understand it, without buying any additional software!
Well, the algorithm for the door is fairly well known, and an adequately skilled locksmith (or thief) knows the algorithm and knows how to iterate over the various keys, so you could argue that it's not really security by obscurity, but rather a well-known algorithm which is easily brute-forced.:-/
Since we're talking about wireless, and the fact that a random sniffer can't determine where the packets are going, how does a legitimate computer on the network determine where the packets are going?
Does my handheld have to decrypt everything it receives, whether or not it's destined for the handheld, in order to see which address it is to, and then discard it?
That would be fantastic. Just like how I was trying to get an important email to someone earlier this week, and the IP blocks of all three of my sending mail servers were all blocked by some indiscriminate anti-spam relay.
Whenever I see "hardened" I think more of Hardened GCC. You could base a "distribution" around that, and it might be considered a "hardened distribution."
I would ask you to test if it works to Australia, but the only way I can figure to do it is to give my phone number out on the Internet... fuck that. But I know ICQ's frequently fucks up because the SMS service is run out of some random asian country which my mobile provider blocks.
I love that service. As soon as wireless hotspots get dense enough, phones start supporting wireless, and I can get a Jabber app on my phone, I won't be paying for SMS anymore. Instead, I'll just be suffering as my battery drains out due to the wireless.:-(
The problem with your 6x160 character messages, is they fuck over anyone who still has a 160 character phone. It's bad enough when I receive three messages when a bastard "friend" decides to send me an SMS which is longer than the limit, but six would make me seriously consider buying some piano wire and rectifying the situation.
It would be neat if this could somehow be cross-linked with the address book on the phone, so that one of the criteria could be "sender is in my address book."
Otherwise I guess you'd have to maintain the address book in more than one place.
Ah, well... when they do bring in.NET as "the" application development platform of choice, I doubt they will throw away Win32. But they'll advise that people don't use it, and if someone comes up with a legitimate API which Win32 had and they need to use, MS will probably incorporate it into some.NET API.
In the long run though, strategies like.NET should be able to assure better forwards and perhaps even backwards compatibility (hey, Java managed it.) They could completely change the entire native API underneath the.NET runtime, and applications would still work.
Hopefully, assuming Microsoft don't behave like fucktards, this will give us cross-compatibility with Mono and Portable.NET systems too, but I'm not holding my breath on that one. The odds are if Microsoft do start losing significant market share, that they'll just pull the rug out from under Mono and its ilk.:-(
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People are comparing Microsoft Word format to XML formats too, I bet that makes Word format a standard too.
The idiots who make up words like "Speedfeed" for this are the same idiots who make up words like "txt" for equally easy words like SMS.
I think it's good for Microsoft. They paid $20 million and now every potential Lindows customer who visits the site will be visiting a site run by Microsoft where they can spout all sorts of FUD about how insecure Lindows is compared to Windows. Step three, profit! ;-)
Finally someone recognises that IM and Voice are different enough to use separate protocols for the two. I'm fed up with this bullshit where IM protocols have to implement their own voice protocol because the existing ones simply mustn't be good enough. :-/
Python is cool, but I wish they'd support Ruby instead. :-)
Perl is just too big to fit on the phone. :-)
Samsung are a bad example for comparison. I've owned two Samsung phones, both were flip phones, and both flips snapped off within 18 months of use. Of course, I'm not female so I actually treat my electronics well, and it didn't break as fast as your sister's.
But Motorola's flips seem pretty solid. They have those huge hinges like you see on the GameBoy Advance, where the size of the hinge is about half the width of the phone. :-)
My next phone is almost certainly going to be that Motorola MPx, but the flip on that one swivels in all directions so I'm skeptical about how solid that one's going to be. Nevertheless...
Also, I want my ringer to sound like a telephone ring, not Flight of the Bumblebee or the theme from Cheers. I've always thought that the selection of ring-tones that actually sound like a telephone ringer are quite lousy on some phones
With the current series of phones, you can put on MP3 ringtones. The first thing I'm doing when I get my next phone is recording the real from a real antique phone, and setting that up.
People who have so many issues installing a commercial Scrabble (I have the last commercial release of Scrabble AFAIK, and it wasn't complex to install at all), should be playing Scrabble on web sites where they don't have to think about how to get it running.
And FFS, bitching about an old chess program not working? Chess is one of those programs where someone write a new computerised version once a week. I'm sure that enough searching would have eventually found one which didn't install a bunch of crap. Or again, use the damn web version.
Agreed. And they only have to beat Matrox, which doesn't seem like much of a challenge.
Perhaps poetically, Gentoo actually do support hardened GCC. ;-)
Was this before or after they were bought out by a company that can't even keep an instant messaging protocol backwards compatible?
I say fuck it. I will just GPG and TLS encrypt all the critical data which goes over the wire anyway, just like I do now... Sure, they can add another layer if they want, but only if it's not going to lag my wireless link.
DROT-13 is the best algorithm ever because it contains advanced technology which permits the human brain to instantly understand it, without buying any additional software!
Well, the algorithm for the door is fairly well known, and an adequately skilled locksmith (or thief) knows the algorithm and knows how to iterate over the various keys, so you could argue that it's not really security by obscurity, but rather a well-known algorithm which is easily brute-forced. :-/
Since we're talking about wireless, and the fact that a random sniffer can't determine where the packets are going, how does a legitimate computer on the network determine where the packets are going?
Does my handheld have to decrypt everything it receives, whether or not it's destined for the handheld, in order to see which address it is to, and then discard it?
That would be fantastic. Just like how I was trying to get an important email to someone earlier this week, and the IP blocks of all three of my sending mail servers were all blocked by some indiscriminate anti-spam relay.
Whenever I see "hardened" I think more of Hardened GCC. You could base a "distribution" around that, and it might be considered a "hardened distribution."
That is truly cool. Somebody mod this chap up! Gentoo's lack of a swanky installer is probably the only thing stopping new users from trying it. :-)
I would ask you to test if it works to Australia, but the only way I can figure to do it is to give my phone number out on the Internet... fuck that. But I know ICQ's frequently fucks up because the SMS service is run out of some random asian country which my mobile provider blocks.
I love that service. As soon as wireless hotspots get dense enough, phones start supporting wireless, and I can get a Jabber app on my phone, I won't be paying for SMS anymore. Instead, I'll just be suffering as my battery drains out due to the wireless. :-(
The problem with your 6x160 character messages, is they fuck over anyone who still has a 160 character phone. It's bad enough when I receive three messages when a bastard "friend" decides to send me an SMS which is longer than the limit, but six would make me seriously consider buying some piano wire and rectifying the situation.
It would be neat if this could somehow be cross-linked with the address book on the phone, so that one of the criteria could be "sender is in my address book." Otherwise I guess you'd have to maintain the address book in more than one place.
Ah, well... when they do bring in .NET as "the" application development platform of choice, I doubt they will throw away Win32. But they'll advise that people don't use it, and if someone comes up with a legitimate API which Win32 had and they need to use, MS will probably incorporate it into some .NET API.
In the long run though, strategies like .NET should be able to assure better forwards and perhaps even backwards compatibility (hey, Java managed it.) They could completely change the entire native API underneath the .NET runtime, and applications would still work.
Hopefully, assuming Microsoft don't behave like fucktards, this will give us cross-compatibility with Mono and Portable.NET systems too, but I'm not holding my breath on that one. The odds are if Microsoft do start losing significant market share, that they'll just pull the rug out from under Mono and its ilk. :-(
It's definitely more complete. If it weren't, then Windows XP wouldn't have so much trouble running Transport Tycoon, where DOSBox seems to cope okay.